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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

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If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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atomicbell @atomicbell.bsky.social · 2d

Timely and important, be sure to follow the Bulletin's investigations into how AI is shaping our world and the future.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 2d

The Bulletin is excited to announce The AI Power Trip, a year-long project examining how the people and organizations developing AI applications are gaining control of the world's governance, information ecosystems, energy resources, military-industrial complex, and more. #AIPowerTrip

The AI Power Trip

Almost three years after its launch into the public sphere, generative artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every crevice of human life.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

Can Miller really believe this? If so, he is delusional. If not, then he’s a reprehensible demagogue.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

We must pay billions to farmers

Because we cut off their customers with tariffs

And pay billions to Argentina

Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited

Because that is America First

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Dawn Stover @dawnstover.bsky.social · 8d

This is a clock??

Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 8d

Shutdown clock at Whitehouse.gov

It's like Trump and Republicans are celebrating their own shutdown...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9d

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 8d

"There's just a handful of bad actors right now that are trying to prevent meaningful progress on climate, and unfortunately the United States now happens to be one of them." — @michaelemann.bsky.social.

Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape

The green energy transition will continue despite United States roadblocks, because "what's going to determine the trajectory of clean energy is not about the US in isolation. It's also about what’s happening in other countries [...]"

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump deleted his bizarre post featuring an AI video of him endorsing “medbeds,” which raises the question of whether he’s so confused that he thought it was a real video of him talking

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11d

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11d

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM

(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

Mock @mock541.bsky.social · 13d

Gift 🎁 link

Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

www.oregonlive.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

"War ravaged Portland" today

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12d

War-ravaged Portland

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12d

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯 @jonatomic.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to @thebulletin.org for publishing. And to @scientistsorg.bsky.social team for the unparalleled analysis on nuke numbers.

François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 JUST IN: Extending the New START nuclear arms control treaty by a year, even informally, would be a security and diplomatic win for the United States, writes Jon Wolfsthal (@jonatomic.bsky.social) in @thebulletin.org.

#nuclearweapons #NewSTART #nukesky #Trump #Putin #China

Why President Trump should put off the new nuclear arms race for one more year

Extending the New START nuclear arms control treaty by a year, even informally, would be a security and diplomatic win for the United States.

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Dawn Stover @dawnstover.bsky.social · 12d

Even in countries with less nuclear regulation than the US, small modular reactors have been over budget and behind schedule. There are 3 operating SMRs in the world. Cost overruns: 300% for the one in China, 400% for the two in Russia. They took 12-13 years to complete (not the 3-4 years expected).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 14d

WHATEVER could have caused this??? It's a MYSTERY.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Brooke Rollins: "Soybean, corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton farmers are facing very difficult times. We are currently in conversations here at the White House, across the government, on a farmer aid package."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14d

The position that it's wrong for govt to censor but private actors have a right of disassociation is consistent with the position that it's wrong for govt to censor but private actors have a right of disassociation.

Twitter or a book publisher are not the state.
Harsh criticism is not state action.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 15d

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

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Dawn Stover @dawnstover.bsky.social · 14d

Trump said he will lead an international effort to enforce the international bioweapons treaty using AI verification. Does anyone want to follow the guy who just told the rest of the world that their countries are "going to hell"?

Trump dissed world leaders at the UN while asking for their help on a bioweapons prevention plan

President Donald Trump pledged to spearhead an international effort to use AI to verify compliance with the global biological weapons treaty Tuesday. That will require buy-in from the world leaders he...

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